"....You're weak. Your father was weak in his way. Your brother in his, and now you in yours..."

It doesnt matter if Olivier was over-acting - something he got accused of regularly - his clipped pronunciation, his physical movement, his line delivery and screen presence in this film was awesome. Even the short white hair, glasses and raincoat look of the despicable Szell character was just right.

Yeah, I never felt he was over acting in this role. I thought he was quite reserved actually. Boys from Brazil maybe....

What I stil wonder about is the way the assassin got into Roy's closet. It's established that something is up when the doorman brings the wrong jacket, but was the asian guy hiding in there for two days??? He couldn't have been because he was at the opera.

It takes an enormous amount of work for us to give sound clips for every track (not just selected tracks). We also offer twice the length of the typical sound clip (60 vs. 30 sec). The resolution is low(er) because that's what the studios asked for and it saves on file size. I hope people actually buy the CDs so they're not living with the low-res sound clips?

Lukas

I'd like to second the request for better sounding clips. They should certainly be indicative of the quality you're purchasing; even the 160 kbps suggestion might not do justice to the restoration work of so many of these great releases. Perhaps shorter clips would be a sufficient compromise?

I don't want to live with the clips, but I do want them to encourage my buy. That's what they're there for.

Just to give my two cents on sound samples: I always used to look forward to FSM announcements just to hear the sound samples on their latest rescue but I hardly ever listen to FSM sound clips any more. Yes, 60 seconds is more generous than 30 but I would rather have a select few complete tracks (a la the RealPlayer days) because I see no point in clicking on 35 different 60 second samples that cut off annoyingly sometimes before the music really gets going. I guess Intrada has found a good middle ground, at least.

Just to give my two cents on sound samples: I always used to look forward to FSM announcements just to hear the sound samples on their latest rescue but I hardly ever listen to FSM sound clips any more. Yes, 60 seconds is more generous than 30 but I would rather have a select few complete tracks (a la the RealPlayer days) because I see no point in clicking on 35 different 60 second samples that cut off annoyingly sometimes before the music really gets going. I guess Intrada has found a good middle ground, at least.

Yavar

I agree. Intrada has the best sample system of all of the specialty labels: fewer samples, longer samples, and samples that can be played continuously without having to use unique plugins in specified browsers. And my less-than-golden ears find nothing wrong with their sample quality.